There are people and organizations in the United States who say governments have no right to collect taxes from any citizen, visitor, or tourist. This attitude appears to be catching fire in some members of the church as well.
The first argument says that your allegiance is to God only and therefore you owe no government anything that you didn't borrow from them. The second argument says the U.S. Constitution contains no article or provision allowing taxation and therefore the president, congress, state, and local legislators have no right to pass laws requiring people to pay taxes. The third argument says the amount of taxation has become so enormous that it oppresses people and therefore must be boycotted and left unpaid.
Based upon biblical instruction, you as a godly person should recognize these arguments as invalid even though worldly-minded people may think these arguments valid. Though the current tax maze is burdensome to some and riddled with unfairness, God is sure to provide those who follow His principles more than enough to pay what the governments require. Jesus answered all the arguments by paying taxes for Himself and Peter and also instructing that you should "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and render unto God what is God's.”
You certainly can do all you can to reduce the amount of taxes you pay by taking all legal exemptions, deductions, credits, and other benefits available to you. Just make sure you don’t ruin a blessing of earning extra income and accumulating greater assets by accepting the unwise belief that paying lower taxes is always better. Such logic will cause you to be continually broke or impoverished because the only way to truly be charged no or low taxes is to earn no or low income.
Use overtime and extra work to open the door for such blessing to come to you when it is aligned with God’s plan and common sense. While you should determine whether or not overall expenses would exceed the net amount that you will receive from extra paid work due to added child care costs, added transportation costs, added clothing costs, and taxes, you must understand mathematically the amount of taxes extracted will not stop you from receiving far more than you have right now to take care of the things He’s given you responsibility for and to get things you desire.
You can also protest in a legal way when an exorbitant amount of taxes is being extracted from you and other people. Also, when necessary you should communicate to federal, state, and local legislators that the tax system is too complicated and unfair to some people. Just understand that God provides your need according to His riches in glory and gives you more than enough to pay taxes due.
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1Kings 12:12-16, Matthew 17:24-27, Luke 20:21-26, Romans 13:1-7, 1Peter 2:11-17
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